About You

If you’ve found your way here, you may be navigating a time of change or challenge. Perhaps you feel stuck, overwhelmed, or unsure how to move forward. Maybe you’re in a career transition, facing personal upheaval, or sensing shifts in the wider world that leave you unsettled.

You might be a deep thinker or a caring person who’s carried responsibility for others. You long for space to pause, be heard, and find your own way, not just with strategies, but in a way that feels authentic, grounded, and true to you.

About Jo

I love what I do and feel deeply fortunate to have been invited into the intimate inner lives of so many wonderful people. These days I’d say I’m stepping into what might be called eldership, and I find real fulfilment in supporting those whose path leads them to me, sometimes more than once, as some of my clients return in different life seasons.

My own path has not been simple. Living with life-long struggles (including some pretty dark stuff) has meant learning the hard way that life cannot be neatly solved. For a long time I hoped for a “miracle” solution, the right therapy, mindset, practice, community, or something or someone, but over time, and a lot of work, I’ve come to see that being lost, and even falling apart, is part of the human path. Real strength has come not from hardening, but from allowing softness, compassion, and support.

I bring to my work the gifts I’ve cultivated along the way: deep listening, emotional resonance, and what clients often describe as a sense of being truly “got.”

About Us

Coaching with me is not just about insight or strategy. It’s about integration. Lasting change happens when the head, heart, and body align, when what you know in your mind connects with what you feel in your body and can express in your life. Together we create space for awareness, insight, compassion, clarity, self-expression, and embodiment, so that growth isn’t only an idea but a felt, lived reality.

Qualifications & Credentials

• Professional Certified Coach (International Coaching Federation)

• Certified Trauma-Informed Coach (Moving the Human Spirit)

• Certified Enneagram Practitioner (The Narrative Enneagram)

• Qualified Action Inquiry & Global Leadership Profile Coach (Global Leadership Associates)

• Certified Vertical Mindset Indicator Coach (Adeption)

• Results Associate Certified Coach (NeuroLeadership Group)

• Conversations at the Growing Edge (Growth Edge Coaching)

• Mindfulness and Somatic Coaching Trained (Mindfulness Coaching)

• Myers Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) Certified Practitioner - CPP Asia Pacific

• HSP Certified Coach - The Highly Sensitive Person

• Love + Work Leader - Marcus Buckingham

• Certified i4 Practitioner - About My Brain

And:

• Bachelor of Management Studies (Waikato)

• Graduate Certificate in Career Development (Auckland University of Technology)

• Diploma of Secondary School Teaching (Auckland)